Giuseppe Zangara

Giuseppe Zangara (7 September 1900-20 March 1933) was an Italian-American anarchist who assassinated Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago in 1933 during an attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt's life.

Biography
Giuseppe Zangara was born on 7 September 1900 in Ferruzzano, Calabria, Italy, and he served in the Tyrolean Alps with the Royal Italian Army during World War I. In 1923, Zangara immigrated to the United States, and in 1929 he became a naturalized citizen while living in Paterson New Jersey. Zangara became an anarchist, once saying, "I have the gun in my hand. I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists." On 15 February 1933, he fired at US Democratic Party presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt as he met with Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak in Miami, Florida, and Cermak was mortally wounded in the lung. Sentenced to 80 years in prison for four counts of attempted murder, he was then tried for first-degree murder after Cermak died. On 10 March 1933, he was sentenced to death and was executed on the "Old Sparky" electric chair at Florida State Prison. His last words were "Viva Italia!...Push the button! Go ahead, push the button!", before he was electrocuted to death.